Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer
Overview of films
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Form Phases IV
This refined film gives us an idea of what Breer might have done if he had continued making ‘elegant’ films, classically balanced and serene.
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Form Phases II
Geometric shapes using the same ‘vocabulary’ as the painters from the Bauhaus movement.
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Blazes
A continuous explosion. Breer made a hundred images, created by gestural brushstrokes and switched their positions for four thousand frames.
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Un Miracle
Pope Pius XII juggles with balls, then his head, then goes off to Paradise. Without his arms.
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Time Flies
Personal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, all of which add to a general sense of reminiscence.
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69
Animated geometric volumes are following the codes of perspective and thus create the illusion of screen depth.
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Form Phases III
Rectangles and soft-edged forms cut out of paper are set to motion on a background.
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70
Made by Breer with spray paint and hand-cut stencils, this film was an attempt at maximum plastic intensity.
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Homage to Jean Tinguely’s ‘Homage to New York’
A recording of the life and death of a self-destructing sculpture by Jean Tinguely. Filmed at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York.
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Robert Breer: ‘The Five & Dime’ Animator
An interview, with fragments from fifteen Breer films and furthermore Fantasmagorie (Emile Cohl) and Felix the Cat (Otto Mesmer).
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Bang!
Breer’s most autobiographical film – the youngster rowing a boat is the artist as a boy and the pencil cartoon sequences were drawn when he w
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Frames of Mind
Besides the conversation, the film contains footage from the following films: Recreation, A Man and His Dog Out for Air, 69, LMNO.